- Ritual
- Festa dos Rapazes
- Region and community
- ブラジル・マラニョン州／Guajajara（Tentehar）
- Age at the cultural rite
- Variable or not confirmed in the source
- Transition conditions
- Community initiation / New social responsibilities
- Legal age of majority
- Brazil18 yearsBrazil · Calendar unspecified · The law provides for acquiring legal capacity before majority. · Law and supporting sources
About the rite
Festa dos Rapazes is a Guajajara, or Tentehar, boys’ initiation in Maranhão, Brazil. It receives participants from boyhood into the standing of youths and adult men. Elders teach community responsibilities and preparation for future family life, and the initiates are presented to relatives and the village in their new status.
University researchers documented a ceremony held at Lagoa Quieta from 14 to 17 October 2021 with fifteen boys taking part. A separate report from 2014 likewise describes initiates assuming responsibilities as new warriors and adult men. The participants and sequence differ from those of the girls’ coming-of-age ceremony.
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